Its the Pumpkin Spice of Horror

Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 6:56 p.m.

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Movie Meltdown - Episode 456\\xa0

As the daylight starts to slip away\\u2026 we gather together for a grand discussion on all things horror\\u2026 and sort-of horror\\u2026 and Halloween and of course - pumpkin-spiced. And as we kick off the season by seeing how many Smarties we can eat, we also bring up\\u2026 the slow retail shuffle, A Quiet Place, Heredity, folk horror, The Mummy, Runaway, monster in the woods, mariachi band of the undead, Brazil, the last great epic Francis Ford Coppola movie, a cornucopia of underwear, a 70s light show in his dungeon, There\\u2019s a Ghost in my Bathroom, the dime store version of Johnny Depp, Mindhorn, yellow #5 vs yellow #2, The VVitch, Mother!, Digital Underground, The Rockford Files, you know\\u2026 I\\u2019ve gotta say\\u2026 it\\u2019s just action-packed gore and\\u2026 stupid, Bad Ronald, Nothing but Trouble, and by good she means it\\u2019s so awful it\\u2019s funny, the horror of William Shatner\\u2019s mustache, squirrel funerals, Gary Oldman, patience is a virtue\\u2026 when you\\u2019re a murderer, Clue, Beyond the Black Rainbow, unleashed from the sarcophagus, Arthur C. Clarke\'s Mysterious Universe, Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, Dynasty, 80s martial artist sci-fi crossovers, waist-to-pant ratio, Columbo, our march toward Halloween, Keanu Reeves, The Holy Mountain, people complaining about being old\\u2026 in space, the Universal monster movies, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, reading the tea leaves of technology, Housebound, a crafty cryptid, the original Friday the 13th vs. Saw, Splitting Up Together, Tom Cruise vs. Brendan Fraser, The Blair Witch Project on crack, the dialogue wasn\'t stupid - it was just moronic, commerce zombies, The Bashful Bladder, The Love Boat, The Innkeepers, watching Blue Velvet as a child, Jack Ryan, The Quiet Earth, limited edition everything, you just need to stock up on red shirts, polyester pumpkin, Santa Sangre, a failed Fruit of the Loom character, Hardcore Henry, I just wanna watch things blow up, everything revolves around Bourbon and vanilla unicorn chalk.

\\u201c...it definitely has a mood. But ultimately the movie makes no sense to me whatsoever and is very anticlimactic.\\u201d

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